Motivational Quotes

Action

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Best Quotes about Action

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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The only way to start is to start.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo